Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY +Suspicious Package at Sensitive Location+ A suspicious box has been discovered at 1310 48th Street corner of 13th Avenue at the office of assemlyman Dov Hikind and its labeled “toys for Mayer Kahane” NYPD of the 66th Pct are on location requesting Bomb Squad and ESU to respond.
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U/D: 14:55
Bomb Squad has properly ID’ed the package, units to take up.
Rabbi’s name on box prompts bomb scare at legislator’s office
NEW YORK – A box filled with toys – but bearing the name of a controversial, assassinated rabbi – prompted a bomb scare at the office of state Assemblyman Dov Hikind Wednesday afternoon.
Tenants in the four-story building in Brooklyn’s Borough Park section were evacuated for about two hours after Hikind’s office alerted police around 1 p.m.
The box was about 2 1/2 feet wide, a foot long, and didn’t weigh much, Hikind said.
But what raised suspicions among his staff were the words, “Toys from Rabbi Meir Kahane,” written on the box.
Kahane founded the militant Jewish Defense League and supported the forced removal of Arabs from Israel; he was killed in 1990.
Hikind is an outspoken Israel supporter who was involved in the league many years ago. He recently visited the country while it was in the middle of hostilities with Hezbollah, the Lebanese-based militant group.
It turned out, the box was filled with dolls, wax images and other “odds and ends,” some of which police tore apart while checking for explosives, Hikind said.
The assemblyman was back in his office by 3 p.m. He said it’s possible that whoever sent the toys may have wanted his office to send them to children in Israel.
can someone post something good that he did by being a legislature in the assembly did the mosdos or private citizens get more money in their pockets or less tickets, i’m not saying that he should not be assembly, why not let a yid get that wages but what benefit does it bring me in my pocket is a good question?
Why then does he run off to israel and help there, yet here at home he doesnt do jack S–T?
dov is a tzadik
he stands up for what he believes…
if every1 had as much courage as him. if every1 was as dedicated as he he is
klal yirael would be in better shape
let him go to yisroel and stay there he is the bigest mchalel hashem on earth
dear fellow yiden hert of tzi shtimen far daim dov hikind er macht nur tzures.
In politics terminology its called a “publicity Stunt”.
Nice job Dov!
13 Avenue package – Update
After x-raying, and almost exploding, the suspicious package that was left at Assemblyman Dov Hikind’s office, the bomb squad had determined that the box actually was filled with toys as it was marked. The bomb squad and Police have left the area, but interestingly enough they have not yet opened 13th Avenue for traffic. This is amazing, Dov Hikind fearlessly goes to Northern Israel to show solidarity, but shakes in his pants from a box of toys.
its over… it was just toys
is it true that someone crossed the DO NOT CROSS line and got arressted????
Did the Bomb Squad arrive already?
“Izzys”…probably “Israelis”
the tziyoinim
Who are the Izzys?
If only the Izzys would have listened to Meir Kahane when he was alive.
Anyone on the scene with more info?